Nick Santora

Show Summary

Adam opens the show thanking all the fans for helping us win the iTunes Facebook contest. He also talks about his kids chastising him for saying ‘stupid’, and rants about ridiculous kids’ books. Bald Bryan mentions that today is the three-year anniversary of his initial diagnosis, even though he was originally told he had less than a year. In the news, Connecticut is dropping the death penalty, and Adam goes on a long rant about when he thinks it should be implemented. The guys also chat about Molly Ringwald, and Adam’s dad’s house.

Nick Santora joins the podcast next, and he and Adam recall their initial meeting over breakfast. The guys talk about how they hate waste, and joke about doing a wife swap. Nick also talks about his journey from being a miserable lawyer to becoming a screenwriter. Next up, the gang plays a round of Made Up Movie.

In the rest of the news, the first story is about Jimmy Kimmel claiming that Adam made up the cupcake detail of his Tom Cruise story. Nick assures everyone that it’s true, and recalls an overly friendly exchange with Cruise later in the night. The guys also talk about a NY prep school not allowing students to reveal where they’re going to college, lest they make other students jealous. As the show wraps up, the guys discuss the most relaxing song ever, and Adam rants about smoke detectors.

Try cranking out daily podcasts lasting 1.5 hours or more over a period of years without recycling. I came to the party late … about middle of last year … so even though I’m now hearing some repetition, I was initially glad for it. There’s a bedrock of experiences and beliefs that are (a) fucking hilarious, and (b) good for newcomers to hear so they understand the club.

Repeating opinions, especially when you make it funnier or even a little different in its presentation each time, shows consistency (rare these days) and talent. If he were simply repeating the same joke day after day, this wouldn’t be the most successful podcast venture in history.

Wholeheartedly agree. Mo Willems Knuffle Bunny series, which won a caldecott award, is one of the best children’s trilogies that I have read. The illustrations are creative and the story is touching, especially Knuffle Bunny Free. Mo’s pigeion series is also excellent. The Piggie and Gerald books are the best but do teach kids to read and are leaps and bounds better than the BOB books or that horrible dog, Biscuit. Viva Mo!

I love it when Adam hammers someone about not being a legit writer/author. This is the same dude who self admittedly can’t read and lays on the floor and tells someone else what he is thinking and gets paid. What the F am I doing doing wrong. Great stuff Ace man.

15 digits? About: an amputee, missing digit on a credit card form, phone number and a half?

10 minutes ripping childrens books for being simple and not 30 seconds of description as to what this book is about. I’ll go and burn all of my kid’s books since they are below my reading level. Here you go 4 year old son, it’s called”The Charm School” by Nelson DeMille. It’s 800 pages of thrilling reading about Cold War Russia and a kidnapped American. When you finish it, you are going to NFL combines, you don’t need pee wee league, I’m 31 for fuck’s sake.

Really? The originator of The Sopranos is in studio and all Ace wants to talk about is fucking smoke detectors? Hmmmmm. Ace prides himself on having a heightened sense of awareness, the way he conducts his interviews does not support this claim of hypervigilance.

If you want someone who sticks to a predictable script and asks loaded questions to trigger a lame joke or scripted response because the pre-interview told you to instead of having a conversation, there are other places for you to go. Carolla built this audience by refusing to stick to that format.

Adam, when your kids are in Kindergarten/1st grade you will see that kids learn to read by having the words on the page match the pictures, and that repetition aids in this process. Oh, Alison just said that. HA! Adam, your blood pressure will thank you if you ever accept that some people know what they are doing, even if you don’t understand it. You know a lot of things…but the best way to educate kids is not one of them. You should trust some people…some of the time.

No less than 100 different celebrities and/or their wives or husbands ‘write childrens’ books’ now. They call themselves ‘authors’ too. a local college girl made the front page having already published her first children’s book. At a recent art showing, not on, not two but three! Three self-satisfied ‘children’s book authors’ were in a room at the same time with the same airs of importance around each other. a recent high-school year book had no less than 20 students listing their career goals as ‘to write children’s book’. The world needs another 30,000 children’s books every 4 months? The time has come to start punching ‘children’s book authors’ square in the face. With contempt!

Mo Willems made Sheep in the Big City, he can draw all the crappy illustrated books he wants after that.

Funny thing is the last time Adam was complaining about kids books he mentioned he should write a book called Dinosaur Train for Sonny combining his two childhood loves. That was pretty funny, but then at the grocery store I saw a children’s book literally titled “Dinosaur Train”.

People shit on Adam because he tells it like it is. People tend to dislike people that tell the truth, they are much more comfortable lying to themselves. I am going to write a children’s book about real stuff here’s
the titles:

1. Why you get bullied (message to kids: stop being a puss)
2. The thing billy said to make him get beat up (message to kids: be prepared to shut up or back it up)
3. Everyone dies it’s normal. (message to kids: explaining how death is normal)
4. I’m not good at everything (message to kids: It’s ok not to be the winner of everything)

etc this can go for ever. I can’t write worth shit but I can draw and anyone can write one of these.

Prison guards in california get paid DECENTLY due to the murderous gang infested environment they signed up to work in. The conditions in the lib dominated cali prisons aren’t as safe as the ones in more conservatively controlled states. Like Ace said, the Manson family is siring kids. Those prisons are horribly over crowded and in the shitty job market, many are basically forced to work in those places so they can feed their kids and live in decent areas so they don’t run into inmate families quite so much. Can’t begrudge a wage to those guys. They COULD cut corners with the food budget, since they do get top of the line meals. Or the endless appeals they enjoy. I agree, get rid of the real bad ones. Paroling those guys regularly is one thing that’s made your state so fucked up.